The Prison Quotes
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But instead of feeling safe and secure behind their armed walls they found themselves trapped in the prison they had built with their own fears.
— Katie J. Davis
I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.
— Dean Winters
Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it.
— Kevin Hearne
The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty
— Benjamin Franklin
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
— Jack Kerouac
The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
— Oscar Wilde
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
— Denis Healey
I'd kill for any one of my friends. Thankfully for the overpopulated prison system, I don't have any friends.
— Jarod Kintz
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.
— Conan O'Brien
Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?
— Michel Foucault
Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on.
— Nelson Mandela
The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims.
— Deyth Banger
It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.)
— Donald Rumsfeld
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
— Seneca The Younger
Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.
— Robert D. Hare
From May 1717 to April 1718, Voltaire sat comfortably in the infamous prison insulting the Regent and reading Homer.
— Jessica Powell
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
— James Belushi
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.
— Michael Vick
I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.
— Terry Pratchett
Freedom or prisonwhat's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
— James Ussher
A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
— Jeremiah Denton
I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.
— Lionel Suggs
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
— Dorothy Rowe
Nik gripped his fork so tightly his knuckles turned white. His temper flared up like a beast inside him, clawing at the walls of its fleshy prison.
— Quinn Anderson
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
— Eugene V. Debs
Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.
— John C. Wright
It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Make not thyself the judge of any man.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.
— Ken Robinson
You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter
A liberal education ... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Prison house for the soul
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
— Eugene V. Debs
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,
— Edward Snowden
You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison.
— Kenneth Eade
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
— Cyril Connolly
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
— Cynthia Ozick
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.
— Richard Wurmbrand
As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
— Maajid Nawaz
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
— Jeffrey Archer
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
— Chaka Khan
He would live alone and broken, in a prison he could never escape, created by the brother he had betrayed.
— Julia Mills
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.
— Nelson Mandela
The prison scandal is really hurting President Bush's poll numbers. In fact, I hear he's already working on his concession smirk.
— Craig Kilborn
The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.
— Piri Thomas
When you're very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time - the prison without walls. Your
— Barry McDonagh
In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
— Theodor W. Adorno
The last place I would ever want to go is prison.
— Martha Stewart
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When you are born into bondage you can't see the prison.
— Bryant McGill
Making Disciples through the Transforming Power of Jesus Christ in the Spirit of Excellence!
— Hans Blunk
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale ...
— Arthur Koestler
I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.
— Steve Maraboli
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
— Barry McCaffrey
I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
— Theodore Kaczynski
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
— Naguib Mahfouz
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
— Mitchell Burgess
You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The
— Frank Herbert
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The way to reform has always led through prison.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
— George Sand
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
— Mary Archer
